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when it's a defensive pact declaring an offensive war, aka what Austria was doing, doesn't trigger it.

there are a number of points in the record of diplomatic talk that, where it doesn't outright say so, implies heavily that the reason Austria-Hungary was willing to go to war was Germany egging them on.

I mean... it kind of did... like, unless you wanna claim that Japan was united during the Sengoku Jidai because TECHNICALLY all the feuding warlords were "loyal" to the same dude... That's about how much control the French King has had of France as a whole basically until the end of the Hundred...